Editing SOAP (section)

==History==
SOAP was designed as an object-access protocol and released as [[XML-RPC]] in June 1998 as part of [[UserLand Software|Frontier]] 5.1 by [[Dave Winer]], [[Don Box]], Bob Atkinson, and Mohsen Al-Ghosein for [[Microsoft]], where Atkinson and Al-Ghosein were working.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dotnet.sys-con.com/node/45908 |title=Exclusive .NET Developer's Journal "Indigo" Interview with Microsoft's Don Box |publisher=Dotnet.sys-con.com |access-date=2012-10-04 |archive-date=2019-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106063021/http://support.sys-con.com/404/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>  The specification was not made available until it was submitted to [[IETF]] 13 September 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://xml.coverpages.org/soap.html |title=XML Cover Pages on the history of SOAP |publisher=Coverpages.org |access-date=2003-07-22 |archive-date=2001-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010303194003/http://xml.coverpages.org/soap.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-box-http-soap-00 |title=SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol |newspaper=Ietf Datatracker |date=September 1999 |access-date=2015-09-20 |archive-date=2021-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225055937/https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-box-http-soap-00 |url-status=live }}</ref> According to Don Box, this was due to politics within Microsoft.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2001/04/04/soap.html |title=Don Box on the history of SOAP |publisher=XML.com |date=2001-04-04 |access-date=2015-09-20 |archive-date=2015-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618225840/http://www.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2001/04/04/soap.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Because of Microsoft's hesitation, Dave Winer shipped [[XML-RPC]] in 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://davenet.userland.com/1998/07/14/xmlRpcForNewbies |title=XML-RPC for Newbies |date=1998-07-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991012055302/http://davenet.userland.com/1998/07/14/xmlRpcForNewbies |archive-date=October 12, 1999 }}</ref>

The submitted [[Internet Draft]] did not reach [[Request for Comments|RFC]] status and is therefore not considered a "web standard" as such. Version 1.1 of the specification was published as a W3C Note on 8 May 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/ |title=W3C Note on Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1 |publisher=W3C |date=2000-05-08 |access-date=2015-09-20 |archive-date=2021-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304073820/http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Since version 1.1 did not reach [[W3C Recommendation]] status, it can not be considered a "web standard" either. Version 1.2 of the specification, however, became a [[World Wide Web Consortium|W3C]] recommendation on June 24, 2003. ''SOAP'' originally stood for "Simple Object Access Protocol" but version 1.2 of the standard dropped this acronym.<ref>{{cite web |date=April 27, 2007 |title=SOAP Version 1.2 Part 1: Messaging Framework (Second Edition) |url=http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#intro |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120619182230/http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#intro |archive-date=2012-06-19 |access-date=2012-06-15 |publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium|W3C]] |quote=Note: In previous versions of this specification the SOAP name was an acronym. This is no longer the case. (Underneath section 1. Introduction)}}</ref>

The SOAP specification<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/ |title=SOAP Specifications |publisher=W3C |access-date=2014-03-29 |archive-date=2021-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415140903/http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/ |url-status=live }}</ref> was  maintained by the XML Protocol Working Group<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/ |title=W3C XML Protocol Working Group |publisher=W3C |access-date=2014-03-29 |archive-date=2018-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225164613/http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/%20 |url-status=live }}</ref> of the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] until the group was closed 10 July 2009. 

After SOAP was first introduced, it became the underlying layer of a more complex set of [[web service]]s, based on [[Web Services Description Language|WSDL]], [[XML Schema (W3C)|XSD]] and [[Universal Description Discovery and Integration|UDDI]]. These different services, especially UDDI, have proved to be of far less interest,{{citation needed|date=March 2025}} but an appreciation of them gives a complete understanding of the expected role of SOAP compared to how web services have actually evolved.{{According to whom|date=March 2025}}